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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Configure PaceMaker for Db2/HADR automation using "rsync" as an option for "db2crm" script.

Ability to configure the entire PaceMaker cluster for Db2 HADR without using ftp or scp. For security reasons, some client environments do not allow the use of "ftp" or "scp". The cluster creation option accepts "rsync" as an option instead of "sc...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted

Support Pre-Cacheing of MDX Views via ViewConstruct

Currently MDX views are not supported in the ViewConstruct function. Therefore there is no way to pre-cache content that is needed to render explorations and other types of PAW content. This leads to a slow user experience. This issue is made wors...
15 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Validation of logs stored in Storage Protect (TSM)

Our databases are backed up regulary directly in Storage Protect (aka TSM). Due to the requirements of our auditing department, we need to check Db2 backups and transaction logs regularly to ensure that they are usable in the event of a recovery. ...
29 days ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

CP4D - Would like to be able to delete multiple jobs at the same time in the GUI

While the asset browser now allows selection of multiple assets for deletion in most places, the "job" view has no such selection and jobs must be selected one at a time and then deleted. The GUI should offer the same type of selection boxes for j...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Capability to control the api key functionality

We need to create an API key so that an Administrator can restrict access to the api key functionality under the personal menu. This will allow Administrators of the system to control access to this functionality.
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Adding support for three-level namespace structure in WQ

We aim to implement a three-level namespace structure, i.e. <Catalog or Database Name>.<Schema Name>.<Table Name>. This structure is pivotal as the majority of our virtualized tables sourced from Databricks Unity Catalog which us...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

Allow Time Zone specification on Watson Pipeline schedules

When the time changes, our schedules run an hour later. We need to be able to define a time zone to use on schedules so this doesn't happen. This causes production scheduling issues.
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 1 Submitted
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Apple Silicon / M1 / M2 / M3 Support for IBM ODBC/CLI Driver

As a developer on macOS with an Apple Silicon chip, I want to use the IBM ODBC/CLI Driver (downloadable from here) natively. Emulating is possible but since I am using this driver via Python, all my other Python code now needs to run emulated as w...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 38 Planned for future release

ElIsAnc for Perspectives and PlanningAnalytics for Excel

Hello, we need the function ElIsAnc for Perspectives and PAfE. This function would be very good for controlling the formatting of each line element in an Active Form without complicated detours using an ELISANC check.It would also be desirable to ...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Known Issues displayed in corresponding windows of the product

Imagine there is a known issue running a Watsonx.ai model in certain conditions, for version 4.8.3. On the page where you run the model, you have a link to "known issues for 4.8.3". That way, if the model fails, users can see it is a known issue, ...
16 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted